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Wednesday, 22 July 2009

-Not on purpose, I hasten to add. Though there's an interesting thought: which is worse, to eat weevils on purpose or without knowing it? Without knowing it, you might think, but aha! In that case, you don't know how many you ate, do you?

I was sick in the night, without any idea why. Then, just now, I re-opened a bag of nuts that I had been eating from yesterday. Here was I, reading emails without a care in the world- or at least, none that involve live insect feasts- here's me enjoying mixed nuts (especially the cashews, I thought) feeding my face without actually looking down at what was coming into it.When suddenly I noticed a black mark on a cashew....which wriggled.

OH.MY.GOD.

Weevil.

I tipped the lot out on to a plate and only found another two, but WHAT the???? How many WERE there? How many did I eat? How many are stuck in my teeth? Oh no, that's it; that last tooth comment was the last straw I have to go and hurl now.

Don't buy mixed nuts from Lidl. (Don't care if they sue. Sue. Go on! You made me eat live weevils you bastards. uuffff.)

19 comments:

Oh dear, I shouldn't smile but I did. I found them in the flour on many occasions and can remember going on about it at work. My freind decided to check her cupboards and was horrified to find them in her flour too........she is a lot more houseproud than me. That was it, she was scrubbing her cupboards for weeks!

I haven't visited your blog in so long! Is it okay if I put your link on my blog?

I'm going to eat the first one right off the vine, then I'm going to try to collect a few more for a salad topping. Then when the others ripen, I'll give some away to family.

weevils? I've had those before....its very common. Those little varments get into my pasta, flour, dried potatos, lasagne, basically all my dried goods. Oh, they're just everywhere. I have to store everything in my freezer now. I don't even gross out anymore...

they first appeared in this house in a batch of bird seed. I thought we'd got rid of them, then they turned up in the conservatory where we keep the bird seed- this time they had made a home in a bag of corn we'd bought for the squirrels. Well I got rid of those too and cleaned and vacuumed- thought we were rid and now this! Ugh!

Oh Helena you are just the tonic I need right now...you are hilarious! I wish you lived closer I just know we'd hit it off you are just my cup of tea. I have never eaten weavils but I have eaten a widgety grub for a dare...well it's not the kind of grub you would eat unknowingly is it :)Debbie x

Oh my! I HAVE been gone too long and I missed out on this but I've read it now! Well, I just threw out some oatmeal with bugs in it and I think I've eaten some of them before I noticed. Yikes. It is terrible isn't it? What did they do in the days before we could seal stuff up from the bugs?

THank you to everyone who sponsored me and helped me raise over £200 for Cancer Research! (sorry but no, I can't run again this year- I'm afraid last year's effort wreaked my back!!! It was great fun but- never again!! LOL!)

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